Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-18
MONDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1857,

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undersigned special commissioner will, on
MONDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1857,
beginning at o'clock a m, sell at public suc
ton, at the front door ofthe Court House Of Ohio
county West Virginia, the tract of land belong.
ing to the Northwest Virginia Agricultural SO
Ciety, known as the OLD FAIR GROUND
PROPERTY, situated on Wheeling Island, north
of Zane street, and west of North Huron street,
and containing, when measured tn the tep Of the
liver bank, twenty-five and twelve. hundTedths
acres. The tract extends, and will be sold, fully
10 the river.
UndeE authority of said decree the said com,
missioners have caused the property TO be diyid.
ed into arCels. and have laid OF streets and
alleys through the anne. A plat. showing the
arrangement of blocks, lots, streets and alleys,
has been prepared, and may be seen at the Office
of George Hook, Clerk of the County Court OF
Ohio county. Printed copies Of said plat may
on and after October LIST, be had OF the under
signed.
The property will first be offered as a whole,
afterwards in blocks, and then in lots, as shown
on the plat, and will be sold in whichever way
may appear the most advantageous when of.
fered in blocks, the blocks numbered five and
six may be offered together as one parcel. When
offered in lots, two contiguous lots may he offered
together, if bidders so desire, Ifthe whole tract
be sold to one purchaser, the streets, alleys and
lots NAV be disFegarded He, in sncb case he.
comes the purchaser OF the streets and alleys
within the boundaries of the tract.
Ii any block be sold separately 70 one pur,
chaser, he, of course, may disregard the lot lines
within the block, but alleys must be opened. II
the blocks numbered five and six be sold to.
gether TO one purchaser, the street running be-
tween said blocks, AMI the alley running through
block five, may be diSregarded, at the election of
such purchaser, 10 be made and declared at the
time o. the purchase. II he 50 elect to disregard
land eloSel said street and alley, then the south
end OF said street where il passes through block
seven, fronting On Zane street, and extending
north TO the alley parallel with Zane street, will
be sold as a LOT or lots.
There are on said Fair Ground tract more than
two hundred and Thirty trees, of which about
eighty are Lombardy Poplar, of the rem inder
the greater part are Maple. A of said trees are
well grown, probably more than half of them
having trunks q foot or more in diameter.
TERMS OF SALE-Each purceaser to nav in
hand one-third, at least of his purchase money.
and as much more thereof as he may choose, and
the residue, if any, in two equal instalments,
bearing interest frUm the day of sale, and pay.
able respectively, in one and two years thereaf-
ter, the deferred payment to be secured by
notes with good personal security. But IL any
purchaser pay in hand one half, or more, of his
purchase money, his notes for the deferred install
ments ofthe sam shall be taken without personal
security. In every case, however, the title must
be retained as security until payment in fun.
GEORGE B. CALDWELL,
WM. ERsKINE,
Special Commissioners
l certify that bond has been given by said
Special commissioners, as required by said de-
cree. JOHN W. MITCHELL.